page_title: Brown sicklebill
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Brown sicklebill / Description
caption_attribution_description: Epimachus meyeri English: A male Brown Sicklebill in Papua New Guinea.
context_page_description: The brown sicklebill, also known as Bee's sicklebill, is a species of bird-of-paradise.
  It is distributed to mountain forests of New Guinea, Its appearance resembles the closely related and larger black sicklebill. In areas where these two large sicklebills met, the brown sicklebill replaced the latter species in higher altitudes. Its diet consists mainly of fruits, arthropods and small animals.
  This bird was first recorded by Carl Hunstein in 1884 and named after Adolf Bernard Meyer of Dresden Museum, Germany.
  The brown sicklebill is evaluated as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. It is listed on Appendix II of CITES.
context_section_description: The brown sicklebill is large, up to 96 cm long, dark blue and green with highly iridescent plumages, a sickle-shaped bill, pale blue iris and brown underparts. The male is adorned with ornamental plumes on the sides of its rear and a huge sabre-shaped central tail feathers that are highly prized by natives. The female is a reddish-brown bird with buff barred black below.
caption: Male in Papua New Guinea
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